Virtual Sound - Sound Synthesis and Signal Processing - Theory and Practice with Csound
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 8890026146 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 380 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"A fantastic introduction to CSound!" according to M. Sweetz. If you're looking to start learning CSound, this book is an incredibly great place to start!Learning CSound has been on my to-do list for a few years now, and I've owned The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing,and Programming for nearly as long. While that book is impressive and will surely get more use from me in due time (i.e. I'll finally get past chapter one), I found it difficult to start out with. Who knows - I was in a different place in life at the time, so I probably didn't give it enough time.Fast-forward to a fe. "Clear explanations and lots of good sound synthesis examples." according to amazon customer. Excellent introduction to csound. It covers all that you need to start making music and designing sounds with csound. The book is very well structured with lots of examples and exercises that are fun to do and help you understand the concepts. I've read this book more than once, and every time I learn (get a better understanding?) something new. The tone of the writers is very pleasing, it doesn't feel dry and academic. Other csound book might have a lot of theory and can be hard to read, but this one was very enjoyable and I couldn't stop reading it.If you want to l. Marcelo Carneiro de Lima said Great!. This is a great book and I am already using it in my class. The only problem is that Csound has been improved a lot, and some topics need to be updated.
Virtual Sound is an in-depth tutorial in computer music, complete with user-friendly exercises in Csound that illustrate the theory and practice of each type of sound synthesis and processing. The subjects covered include additive synthesis, subtractive synthesis, flow-charts, control signals, vibrato and tremolo, 3-D sound, sampling, analysis and resynthesis, MIDI files and MIDI controls, amplitude and ring modulation, frequency modulation (FM), echo, reverberation, chorus, flanger, phaser, convolution, waveshaping and vector synthesis, granular synthesis, formant synthesis, and physical modeling. After having read it, you should be able to use other commercial or research-oriented software with a greater understanding of how it functions.. If you have a basic understanding of computers and the fundamentals of acoustics, you'll have no trouble reading this book